Cholera, a disease hoped banished from Syria, has re-emerged among the country’s sprawling city-sized camps and neglected towns of the east. At least 24,000 cases and 80 deaths have been reported in Syria, which the UN has warned is spreading with alarming ferocity and now into neighbouring Lebanon. Aid agencies have issued a response plan calling for urgent help to tackle the crisis, which in a war-torn country like Syria – ravaged by extreme poverty and hampered by crumbling health services – threatens thousands of lives. So far, NGOs are dealing with the outbreak the best way they can – chl…